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Featured Article - Modern-Day STOs
Planned outages are notoriously time- and cost-constrained. Planners and schedulers of shutdowns, turnarounds, and outages (STOs) work diligently to squeeze into the extended downtime as many fixes as possible. However, in the quest to prioritize corrective actions, valuable opportunities for modernization may be overlooked.
Finding opportunity in the outage begins with expanding the conventional STO mindset:
- Would replacement sensors and technologies make life easier, less risky, and less expensive?
- Are smarter, more efficient maintenance tools available to validate service quality and shorten the outage time?
- Are spare parts quantities and complexities overly burdensome?
Learn how to look beyond the fixes by reading the full feature from Plant Services here.
Emerson has the most comprehensive portfolio of services and technologies to support your vision of Top Quartile Reliability. Learn more here.
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Reliability Technology & Tools
Expanding applications for the AMS 9420 Wireless Transmitter
The AMS 9420 wireless vibration transmitter is ideal for a wide range of monitoring applications, including hard-to-reach, cost-prohibitive locations. With the release of a new power adapter, the AMS 9420 will be applicable to even more applications without modifying the existing transmitter. The transmitter will now be able to accept external DC line power, which in turn expands the quantity and type of sensors supported while maintaining the current hazardous location rating.
The adapter is also available with a single adapter, allowing it to support the operation of standard ICP accelerometers. This opens applications like gas turbines requiring high temperature accelerometers. It also enables users to mount AMS 9420 transmitters on pre-installed sensors in their facility, so that they can frequent and automated updates of asset health on these machines.
Learn more at AMS 9420.
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Reliability Tip:
Performing MRO Cycle Counting
Doug Hart- CMRP, CRL
Senior Consultant- Emerson Operational Certainty
The impact of not having the right spare part available when needed, commonly referred to as “Stock- outs”, have been well documented over the years. Some of the ramifications include:
- Increased plant downtime
- Missed production schedules
- Lost revenues
- Expensive expedited rush shipments
- Increased Maintenance Overtime
What is not so well known is some of the actions to take to minimize these costly events from occurring. One of the best mitigating activities to perform are regular and accurate Cycle Counts of the MRO inventory. By performing scheduled inventory counts throughout the year, and taking action to correct the deficiencies (not just updating the numbers) you can be assured to reduce “Stock-outs” and provide quality parts for the Maintenance program in the future.
Some organizations elect to use bar coding/scanning technology to streamline this effort while many companies still use a manual count method to check inventory levels. Regardless of the approach you use, the primary benefit is in performing them on a regular basis and to conduct them accurately.
Some Keys-to-Success to meet these two criteria would be:
- Develop and implement a Stock-out Log to understand trends and aid in analysis
- Divide the inventory into a prioritized grouping (A-B-C, etc.) for counting
- Determine the estimated number of SKUs within each group
- Identify the estimated time required to count each group
- Establish a Cycle Count schedule
- Utilize a “Blind Count” approach
- Validate: quantity on hand, stocking location and verify full quality of the item; All three must be accurately maintained with an error on any one of the three recorded as a Cycle Counting error
- Record and share the Cycle Count accuracy results
- Identify, correct and address the reasons for count discrepancies
- Address any Storeroom access/security issues
By addressing these critical items and implementing a comprehensive MRO Cycle Count effort, you will be taking a giant step toward ensuring your Maintenance Storeroom has the right parts available when required.
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